Cruise Ship Contact Tests Negative for Hantavirus

At least one death confirmed from hantavirus contracted on cruise ship; hospitalized flight attendant exposed to deceased passenger.

In the wake of a confirmed hantavirus death aboard a cruise ship, a Dutch flight attendant who had been hospitalized after close contact with the deceased passenger has tested negative for the virus — a small but meaningful reprieve in an otherwise unsettling international health inquiry. Hantavirus, carried by rodents and rarely passed between humans, nonetheless demands careful vigilance when proximity to the gravely ill is involved. Health authorities across multiple nations are now engaged in the patient, methodical work of contact tracing, reminding us that in an age of global travel, a s

Cruise Ship Contact Tests Negative for Hantavirus

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